Important Australian + International Fine Art - 10 April 2019 | Sydney
Lot 103
Ellis Rowan
(1848 – 1922)
FLOWERING FARADAYA SPLENDIDA WITH BUTTERFLY, 1889
watercolour and gouache on paper
73.5 x 53.5 cm (sight)
Estimate:
$10,000 – 15,000
Lot sold: $28,060 (inc. BP)
Lot Details
Description
Ellis Rowan
(1848 – 1922)
FLOWERING FARADAYA SPLENDIDA WITH BUTTERFLY, 1889
watercolour and gouache on paper
73.5 x 53.5 cm (sight)
signed lower left: Ellis Rowan
dated and inscribed verso: 2nd trip 89
Provenance
M.H. de Young, San Francisco, USA
California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, USA, a gift from the above
Bonhams & Goodman, Melbourne, 24 November 2009, lot 4 (as ‘Untitled’)
Company collection, Sydney